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Specialist Recruitment and Career Advisers to the Legal Profession in the South West

Introducing Career Counsel

Career Counsel is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy, based in Bristol, which recruits high calibre lawyers for the leading commercial law firms in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West.

It really is as simple as that.

We don't pretend to offer full coverage of the entire legal market, but stick to what we do well - we believe really well - and that is providing a high quality, bespoke recruitment service to a carefully targeted and select group of lawyers and law firms. We simply don't want, or need, to play the numbers game.

In our experience, law firm clients and lawyer candidates are very similar when it comes to what they look for in their recruiter and, at Career Counsel, we aim to exceed those expectations. We are totally committed to providing the very best possible service to all our candidates and clients.

As a corporate member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and an organisational member of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG), we aim to achieve the highest professional and ethical standards in recruitment and career guidance. We also offer psychometric testing services carried out by British Psychological Society (BPS) trained and qualified assessors.

We are happy to set out some specific promises to you in our Client and Candidate Charters, which we hope that you will take the time to read in full. However, for those who prefer the short version, the bottom line is that, at Career Counsel, we promise to be:

Discreet and confidential;
Honest and trustworthy;
Transparent and impartial;
Proactive and creative;
Responsive to your needs;
Well informed;
Hopefully, a bit of fun along the way!

All we ask from you in return is your commitment to engage in a genuine partnership with us.

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Career Counsel - Specialist Recruitment and Career Advisers to the Legal Profession

Career Counsel Ltd is a specialist Bristol based legal recruitment consultancy which recruits high calibre lawyers for private practice in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West UK. We provide a high quality, bespoke legal recruitment service for qualified professionals looking for positions with the leading commercial law firms in the region.

Career Counsel is a corporate member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and an organisational member of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG). Director and legal recruitment consultant, Andrew Curtis, is a Solicitor (non practising) and is also British Psychological Society (BPS) trained and qualified to carry out psychometric testing of ability and personality.

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Legal Recruitment in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West UK

We deliver successful legal recruitment outcomes through genuine partnership with our lawyer candidates and law firm clients.

We are specialists in South West, Cardiff and Bristol legal recruitment. We source law jobs in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West UK region including: Bristol; Somerset; Gloucestershire; Wiltshire; Devon; Cornwall; Dorset; and South Wales. Most of our clients and legal positions are based in or around the following primary locations: Bath; Bournemouth; Bristol; Cardiff; Cheltenham; Exeter; Gloucester; Plymouth, Salisbury; and Swindon.

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Psychometric Testing and Career Guidance

We offer psychometric testing (ability and personality tests) to our candidates and clients, carried out by trained and qualified assessors.

By helping individuals to define their career motivations and preferences and to identify certain psychological traits and tendencies, psychometric assessment can be extremely useful in a career guidance / career counselling context in assisting lawyers to make better informed career decisions.

These days, law firms are also adopting more and more sophisticated methods in order to make informed hiring decisions, and increasing numbers are employing psychometric assessment/tests of ability and personality as an aid to the selection decision.

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Services for Lawyers

We provide a range of recruitment services for individual lawyers, including CV drafting advice, interview training, market / salary guides and offer management. We help every step of the way to ensure you secure the right position for you.

We work with solicitor candidates at all levels of the profession, including at partner, associate, assistant and newly qualified status.

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Services for Law Firms

We offer the full range of recruitment services for law firms in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West seeking to fill their legal vacancies. We work hard to ensure that our candidate sourcing, screening and profiling procedures are efficient and rigorous and we provide practical and commercial advice on interview and offer management, market and salaries and recruitment advertising campaigns.

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Legal Vacancies

We offer a selection of legal vacancies in Bristol, Cardiff and the South West on our website. We work with all the major law firms in the region and are instructed on the very best South West, Cardiff and Bristol law jobs. Contact us for full details of all our positions.

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Contact Career Counsel

Contact us at T: 0117 985 8930; E: enquiries@careercounsel.co.uk; A: Westpoint, 78 Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1QX for further information on how specialist Bristol legal recruitment agency, Career Counsel, can assist you or your organisation.

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